2. Early Challenges to the Republic

• Reasons for the early unpopularity of the Republic, including the ‘stab in the back’ theory and the key terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

• Challenges to the Republic from Left and Right: Spartacists, Freikorps, the Kapp Putsch. 

• The challenges of 1923: hyperinflation; the reasons for, and effects of, the French occupation of the Ruhr. 

Revision Pages:   

• Treaty of Versailles    1      2      3

• Challenges to Weimar Republic   1      2      3

• Spartacists and the Kapp Putsch    1 

Show You Know Test: 

• 2.  Treaty of Versailles

• 3. Challenges to the Weimar Republic (1918-1922)

• 4. Challenges to the Weimar Republic (1923)

Useful Videos:

• The Treaty of Versailles and Dolchstoss

• Terms of the Treaty 

• Was the Treaty Fair? 

• The Spartacist Revolt

• Challenges from the Left and Right

• Why did France and Belgium Invade Germany in 1923 - The Occupation of the Ruhr 

• German Economic Crises 1923

4. Changes in Weimar Culture and Society

• Changes in the standard of living, including wages, housing, unemployment insurance.

• Changes in the position of women in work, politics and leisure.

• Cultural changes: developments in architecture, art and the cinema. 

Revision Pages:    1      2      

Show You Know Test: 

• 6. Changes to Weimar Society 1924-29

Useful Videos:

• Changes for workers, women and to culture in the 1920s

• The Golden Years of the Weimar Republic